ICEM Update, 13 April 1999. The International Federation
of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) says
that workers in the world's energy and water utilities want to
maintain social control over basic public services. Proper
regulation and full involvement of unions in any reform processes
is needed for a socially balanced outcome.

From Resource Center of the Americas, 10 December 1995. Across
the US and Canada a campaign to force major clothing retailers to
improve the below-subsistence wages and oppressive conditions of
workers who make clothing.

By Peter Tirschwell, Journal of Commerce, 28 May
1997. An umbrella union organization representing 20 million
metalworkers around the world is meeting in San Francisco to
approve a blueprint to confront corporate globalization.